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Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

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On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch.
>> I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and
>> irritating) has happened to slrn.  All the colours have been softened;
>> it's as if everything has been replaced with pastels.  Even white text
>> on a black background has faded - it's now light gray text on a dark
>> gray background.  When I go to post or reply to a message, vim comes
>> up and the screen snaps back to a crisp black and white, only to revert
>> to washed-out colours when I return to slrn.  Everything else (e.g.
>> console windows) is OK - it's just slrn which is affected.
>>
>> My .slrnrc is unchanged.  What has happened to my colours?  And more
>> importantly, how do I get them back to where they were?
>
> What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you
> fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three
> wildly different code bases)

Good call, sir!  Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch,
the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --launch 
TerminalEmulator) had changed to gnome-terminal.  A bit of web searching 
came up with the exo-preferred-application command, which let me 
re-configure the default terminal emulator to Xfce Terminal.  All is 
well again.  Thanks!

(Do the Gnome people like pastels?)

After further digging, I noticed that my default manager was set to 
gdm3, as opposed to the lightdm on my desktop box, which is also running 
stretch.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

Now my laptop feels much more familiar, and slrn is still crisp and clear.

-- 
cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-18 19:50 +0200
  Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-18 20:10 +0200
    Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-19 00:10 +0200
      Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-19 02:30 +0200
        Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-07-20 03:20 +0200
        Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 00:10 +0200

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